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Just counted how many drawer fronts I've made this year - 247 so far
That number hit me when I was tallying up materials for my next order and I realized half of them were from just one kitchen remodel in Austin back in March, has anyone else ever bothered to add up their yearly output like that?
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veramartin5mo ago
247 drawer fronts, and I can barely keep track of which keys go to which house on my property management list.
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shane_nguyen5mo ago
You are literally counting drawers but do you count the ones that fail? The returns or callbacks? Had a buddy who tracked every cabinet door he made for 3 years. Numbers looked great until he factored in the 12 that warped or had finish issues. That 247 might feel good but the real number is what stayed installed and made the customer happy six months later. Nobody tracks the ghosts - the ones that haunt you at 2am because of a bad miter or tearout. Just saying.
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jennifer_west524mo ago
Nobody tracks the ghosts" - that's going to be the name of my next punk band, or maybe just the thing I mutter to myself at 3am when I remember a countertop I cut wrong last month. Counting the wins is great until you realize the real scoreboard is just a pile of mistakes you try not to think about. Your buddy's 12 failures out of thousands sounds like a decent batting average in my book, but I guess that depends on if the customer is the one keeping score.
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